89: The Divine Mind & The Evolution of Consciousness with Michael Gellert

Michael Gellert is a Jungian psychoanalyst practicing in Los Angeles and Pasadena. He treats individuals and couples and offers a Jungian Writing Workshop.

Michael was formerly Director of Training at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and a humanities professor at Vanier College, Montreal. He managed an employee assistance program for the City of New York and has been a mental health consultant for the University of Southern California and Time magazine.

Michael was educated in rabbinic Judaism; studied theology at Loyola College, Montreal; and trained with the renowned Zen master Koun Yamada in Japan for two years.

He is the author of Modern Mysticism and The Fate of America(for which he received a letter of appreciation from Bill Clinton; and which was also given to Barack Obama by one of his advisors). He also authored The Way of the Smallwhich was recognized by The Center for Spirituality & Practice as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2007.

His new book is The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God’s Inner Journey.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

What is the Divine Mind?

God’s inner journey:

As reflected in the Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam